WGjest Baardsen was a Norwegian outlaw, jail-breaker, non-fiction writer, songwriter and memoirist. He was among the most notorious criminals in Norway in the 19th century.
WAlf Richard Bjercke was a Norwegian business magnate, consul and sports official.
WTrygve Martin Bratteli (help·info) was a Norwegian newspaper editor and politician with the Norwegian Labour Party. He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1971–1972 and 1973–1976. He was President of the Nordic Council in 1978.
WGjermund Eggen was a Norwegian cross-country skier who won three gold medals at the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. The championships were held in Oslo in conjunction with the Holmenkollen ski festival, and so Eggen's medals also counted as Holmenkollen victories. He was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1968. He competed at the 1968 Winter Olympics in the 30 km event, but finished only 34th. Eggen died in Elverum at age 77.
WJoralf Gjerstad is a Norwegian self identified psychic and faith healer. He was born in Snåsa and is known as "the man with warm hands", "Snåsamannen" or locally "Snåsakaill’n".
WElisabeth Granneman was a Norwegian singer, songwriter, children's writer and actress.
WAnders Hovden was a Norwegian Lutheran clergyman, hymnwriter poet and author.
WLillebil Ibsen was a Norwegian dancer and actress.
WTrond Georg Kirkvaag was a Norwegian comedian, actor, impressionist, screenwriter, author, director and television host. During his 39 years at the Norwegian TV network, NRK, he produced numerous comedy television series. After his death he was widely hailed by his colleagues as possibly the greatest Norwegian TV comedian in history. He was the son of NRK journalist and television host Rolf Kirkvaag.
WDagny Tande Lid was a Norwegian painter, illustrator and poet. She is most noted for her drawings of plants and is known for her own illustrated poetry collections and for her botanical illustrations of Norwegian postage stamps.
WElsa Lystad is a Norwegian actress. She made her stage debut in 1956, and her breakthrough as actress came in the mid-1960s. She has since been a central actress in Norwegian film, theatre, television and radio. She was awarded the Leonard Statuette in 1983.
WAnne-Pia Nygård is a Norwegian writer. Her debut book was the 2009 autobiography What Nobody Sees.
WPer Sandberg is a Norwegian politician for the Capitalist Party and formerly the Progress Party who served as the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries from 2015 to 2018. Sandberg has been a member of the Norwegian parliament since 1997, and served as chair of the parliamentary standing committees on Justice, and Transport and Communications. He has additionally held the position of first deputy leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2018. In 1997 he was convicted of assault and battery of an asylum seeker. His status as a convicted felon has made him controversial in Norwegian politics.
WPete Sanstol was a Norwegian professional boxer who took the Canadian version of the World Bantamweight Championship in Montreal in 1931 against Archie Bell. He contended twice unsuccessfully for the NBA World Bantamweight Title, and was a class of 2000 World Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.
WOlaf Henning Thommessen is the Chief Executive Officer of SMB Norge, The Norwegian Association of Small & Medium Enterprises and a former politician for the Liberal Party.
WLiv Johanne Ullmann is a Norwegian actress and film director. Recognised as one of the greatest European actresses, Ullmann is known as the muse, and frequent partner of, filmmaker Ingmar Bergman.
WVilhelmine Ullmann was a Norwegian pedagogue, publicist, literary critic and proponent for women's rights.
WKåre Isaachsen Willoch is a former Norwegian politician from the Conservative Party. He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1981 to 1986. He previously served as Minister of Trade and Shipping in 1963 and 1965–1970, President of the Nordic Council in 1973, and Chairman of the Conservative Party from 1970–1974.